Finance Quote TIAA/CREF module broken again

[davelist at mac.com]

On Sep 20, 2012, at 11:45 PM, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:

> On Sep 20, 2012, at 7:53 AM, davelist at mac.com wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks to Carl for working on this, but it still doesn't seem to work for me.
>> 
>> I copied the file to /Library/Perl/5.12/Finance/Quote on my Mac.
>> 
>> I also tried removing all the extra (looks like man page) text from the bottom of the file, but that didn't help. Is it working now for you?
>> 
>> I still get the message that it was unable to retrieve quotes for TIAA-CREF (other quotes do work).
>> 
>> Any other suggestions? It was working until TIAA-CREF made the changes a few weeks ago.
> 
> Was there already a copy of Tiaacref.pm in that location which you replaced with the new one?  Are there any other copies of that file elsewhere on your system?  I suspect you have several copies and you replaced the wrong one.  If you enter the command 
> 
>   perl -e 'print join "\n", @INC'
> 
> in a Terminal window (it looks like you're running MacOSX) what do you get?  The new version of Tiaacref.pm should go in one of the directories listed and should replace a file by the same name.
> 
>             Mike


I put the file in /Library/Perl/5.12/Finance/Quote

$  perl -e 'print join "\n", @INC'
/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/Library/Perl/5.12
/Network/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/Network/Library/Perl/5.12
/Library/Perl/Updates/5.12.4
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/System/Library/Perl/5.12
/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12
.

The . also made me think about deleting old copies of the file that were in my home directory, but I deleted those too.

I had moved the old file to Tiaacref.pm-pre-sep-2012 but I deleted it now and it still doesn't worked.

Any other suggestions?

I had previously put new versions of the Tiaacref.pm in the appropriate directory and it worked.

There's probably still old copies in /opt/local from years ago when I ran gnucash via macports.

Thanks,
Dave